A boreal invasion in response to climate change? Range shifts and community effects in the borderland between forest and tundra
It has been hypothesized that climate warming will allow southern species to advance north and invade northern ecosystems. We review the changes in the Swedish mammal and bird community in boreal forest and alpine tundra since the nineteenth century, as well as suggested drivers of change. Observed...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:4289007 2023-05-15T18:39:58+02:00 A boreal invasion in response to climate change? Range shifts and community effects in the borderland between forest and tundra Elmhagen, Bodil Kindberg, Jonas Hellström, Peter Angerbjörn, Anders 2015-01-09 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289007 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25576279 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0606-8 en eng Springer Netherlands http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25576279 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0606-8 © The Author(s) 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. CC-BY Article Text 2015 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0606-8 2015-01-18T01:23:04Z It has been hypothesized that climate warming will allow southern species to advance north and invade northern ecosystems. We review the changes in the Swedish mammal and bird community in boreal forest and alpine tundra since the nineteenth century, as well as suggested drivers of change. Observed changes include (1) range expansion and increased abundance in southern birds, ungulates, and carnivores; (2) range contraction and decline in northern birds and carnivores; and (3) abundance decline or periodically disrupted dynamics in cyclic populations of small and medium-sized mammals and birds. The first warm spell, 1930–1960, stands out as a period of substantial faunal change. However, in addition to climate warming, suggested drivers of change include land use and other anthropogenic factors. We hypothesize all these drivers interacted, primarily favoring southern generalists. Future research should aim to distinguish between effects of climate and land-use change in boreal and tundra ecosystems. Text Tundra PubMed Central (PMC) AMBIO 44 S1 39 50 |
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It has been hypothesized that climate warming will allow southern species to advance north and invade northern ecosystems. We review the changes in the Swedish mammal and bird community in boreal forest and alpine tundra since the nineteenth century, as well as suggested drivers of change. Observed changes include (1) range expansion and increased abundance in southern birds, ungulates, and carnivores; (2) range contraction and decline in northern birds and carnivores; and (3) abundance decline or periodically disrupted dynamics in cyclic populations of small and medium-sized mammals and birds. The first warm spell, 1930–1960, stands out as a period of substantial faunal change. However, in addition to climate warming, suggested drivers of change include land use and other anthropogenic factors. We hypothesize all these drivers interacted, primarily favoring southern generalists. Future research should aim to distinguish between effects of climate and land-use change in boreal and tundra ecosystems. |
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A boreal invasion in response to climate change? Range shifts and community effects in the borderland between forest and tundra |
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A boreal invasion in response to climate change? Range shifts and community effects in the borderland between forest and tundra |
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A boreal invasion in response to climate change? Range shifts and community effects in the borderland between forest and tundra |
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A boreal invasion in response to climate change? Range shifts and community effects in the borderland between forest and tundra |
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boreal invasion in response to climate change? range shifts and community effects in the borderland between forest and tundra |
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